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THE BATEJHHJRG ADVOCATE. 1 jg| K % Mi VOL 1, BATESBURG, 3. C. WEDNESDAY MAY 8, 1901 NO. 17 J A GOOD PAPER Read Before the Federation cl Woman's Clubs RECENTLY IN GREENVILLE. " The Consumers' League" and What It Is Doing to Help Women and Children Wage Earners Wo publish below a paper read bofore tho State meeting of tho Federation of Woman's Clnba reoontly held in Greenville by Mrs. Calvert, a talented Spartanburg woman: Ten years ago, tho Women's Work icg Society of New York inaugurated a movement in tho interest of tho women and children employed in the retail stores 01 that oity. 1 boir investigation proved tbat the workiug hours were cxoossive, that overtimo was not raid for, fines wcro exorbitant, wages were low, children under fourteen were employed oontrary to law, and all Eanitary and physical conditions wero unnoticed duch surprisicg conditions were found to exist, that a public appeal w#s made, which resulted in the consumers League ofNiw York oity. Soino timo afterward, a Stato Lcaguo was organised, and so confident and persistent have the worktrs in thomovemcnt Iccd, that now there are leagues in eleven S.atcs, all united under Tho National Con Burner's League.? Tho word "consumer" here, for want of a mere speoifio term, is used as synocomous with tho word 'buvor." A consumer's league, or a league of buyers is an arsooiation of pcratns, who purpose to do iheir buying in Buoh ways as will better tho conditions of those who inskc and those who distribute the things bought. Id the ten minutes limit allowed mo by our president, I oan merely outlino, first, tho teaohiogs and principles of the league, and second its practical aims as applied to individual effort. Tho general principles as stated in the oonstitution are: 1. That tho interest of tho community demands that all workers Bhould reoeivo fair living wages. 2. That tho responsioility for some of tho worst evils from whioh wage earners suffer, rests with the oonsumer.s who persist i.? buying in tho cheapest market, regardless of how that ohcap ness is brought about. 3. "That it is therefore tho duty of f consumers to find out under wbat oon ditions tho articles they buy arc pr ?duocd, and to insist that these eondi tion shall be decent, and consistent with a respectable existence on the part of the workers. - .Ih^tirnndtatn tiu-oh irhe leaput ; ? first, to extend among all olasses of mercantile houses tho ccmnendable conditions now existing in the best; and second, to abolish the sweating system ?litis last beirg the special task of the National League. The league practioally applies these principles by promoting the standard of a Fair House, and a White list by the use of a Consumers' League Label, and by promoting more humane labor laws. Tho advisory Board and various com mittees work continuously with the factory inspectors and by patient insisteooe, succoccd in some moasuro in having tho labor laws enforced. Their standard of a fair house rcgu Ilatcs tho wages, woiking housus. fines, holidays, vaoations and physioal conditions of all employes. The white LiBt is a published list of all retail houses, whioh conform most olosely to the standard of a fair housn. Tho Consumers' League label is their a trade mark, as it were?and is used to I enable tho purohascr to distinguish --t [ ments made in factories approved by ua the league from these made under other conditions. The National League, leaving tho V local organizations to adapt such lines of speoialwork as seems most needed in its locality, has confined itself to an investigation of the conditions of tho manufacture of white muslin underwear * *1 to the pre motion of tho use of tho label / and most largely to tho education of I purchasers bv means of IcotureB, litcraI ture, and organization. Twenty two factories have adopted the uso of the label?and a glance at their names is ' oonvinoing proof that tho very best goods aro made by them. The work of creating a steady demand for label goods devolves upon the State leagues, and upon tho effort oi individual members. This work is being most thoroughly accomplished in New England, Massachusetts and ~ Rhode Island being far in advance ol other States. Id Pennsylvania, the state League is making constant effort to induce rner chants to use labol tearing goods?and is doing much educational work among the shoppers. in Illinois, tho State League has di B reotcd its best effort to tho discussion V of the power and duty of tho purchaser. It tas vigorously supported the effort of the custom tailors to seouro from their employers the merohant tailors, the oonoession of comfortable workrooms, thus aiding moat effectively in theii revolt agfiust tenement house manufao ture. In Kentucky, tho league is attempt ng, in addition to the usual work oi the organization to quietly find a jusl solution of that problem which is ju t now confronting so many of our Southcm States, tho ohild labor question. Suoh in brief is &u outlino of the Consumers' Leaguo, as it exists today, an outline of it* work its aims and responsibilities. The league has now fhown us thai there is urgent net d of reform and hcl| and sympathy for tbeso "Whito Slavep,' an tho Governor of Canada calls these toilers?and the question arises how car wo as individuals help them? Does oui ordinary buying of things carry with it M| any moral r jsposibility? Do wo buy so as to increase the world's good work, and lossc-n its bad work? plpH Within the last few years, sooial g||jBccoaomiBts have dovoted much time to jSgz&EHthe question of "consumption." They ^ffS^Bsmphasizs wealth using as fully as they jraj^^Eio wealth making, and the text book; Bow teach in natural sequenoo produu distribution and exchange. |p? They lay omphatio stioss both on the influenco of consumption upon produo- i lion, and of the moral dutios involved ? upon Booicty and tho indi*"dual. i These questions, as to individual re- : f sponsibihiy u?d bo most cloarly answer- J ed by tho economists themselves. Prof. 1 Patton tho most learned authority on j consumption in America says: ''Tho < prinoiplo upon which tho Oonsunic.V i League is based, is sound. 1 have groat ( faith in educating th j consumer, and in 1 the social changes whi'o r. higher typo 1 | will bring. i Tho producer is me'ely an agent of i tho consumer, and if '.ho latter is per- t siBtont in demanding better things and t oonditiocp, society will be at length re- r modeled and transformed." t President Iladloy of Yale says: "As i years go on, I am more and mcro iui- i prossed with the idea that economic ro fj form is likely to coma through tho agen- s , otj'of tho onsumer. rather than from s anv other source." j From a Qeraian school we read: "Tho f producing man is essentially the ser t , vaot of the consuming man, and the li i nal dircc.ion of industry lira with t i tho consumers." And again, "The in i dustrial world is our servant, a;.d l;ko s any good scrvf ut is only forestalling our i wishes." d Such comclm ions, from such nuthori- 1 tics prove that the oomumcr is the orea- l tcr. The artistio boot maker, who ad- c mires the normal foot, hates to moke t the pointed high heclid boot, but his a customers demand this sty le and his du l , ty is to serve them. If the public did i not read tho yellow journals, their pu t blioation would so >u coaso. Tho Audu t bon Society is teaching women tho cruel t folly of wearing birds on their luits, and o so tnc prcrcrvation of birds is accom plished. The stores ere vciy Bonsativo to the demands of the buyer. Tncy keep in \ stock what you ask for. If thon, tho uicrokant is so keenly alive to the whiuis of every class of buyers, would he not be more so to the insis.biit intelligent o demands of an educated public? And c so the league purposes to edu:a?o this ] public, the so ever/day consumers, by o meeting', by leoiurcs, by leaflets, aad I by systematic investigation. It mutt be made plain that tho consumers hopo a to move on very slowly at tirst, from d sweat-shop conditions to such faotory t industries as exist under tho humane C laws of some Northern States. It must t also be made plain to all ola scs that fao t lory made products are not moro t xpen- f sivo than sweat shop goods. The league c is not a movement against cheapness as c ohcapnots The modern faotory with <j labor saving appliaooos oan produce o cheaper articles, even with high r wages and shorter hours, than como from teno o ment industries. A groat variety of a goods can bo traced directly to the besi r paid workers. Would not such j rices n as hemstitched hankorclticfa for live y cents finish, kueo-pants for twenty five v cents, and trimmed cor?ct covers for y eight cents, satisfy eveu tho moat per u sisient ba<g*in seeker in town. < Tti6 nixt question is, do we need the d -l^agQe iu LCarolinu? Areworea y b lor sue'; no organization or cau ?his work ; be carried on with i ur Club work as it in n in other places? In this State, wo d) g rot find suob extremes of wealth ami A poverty ?b wo see in other Stairs t There are no sweat-shops. Our iner p chants, as a general rule, all live up to a the standard of n Fair hou c Itsjoms u to mo that primarily in this Stale the i movement which I have attempted to de6oribo must lake tho form of a co- o cperative eduoational movement. r Two yeari ago, when Markam's won C dcrful poem '"The Man with tho Hoe" p wag first published, 1 hoard it most i effectively recited in a sermon to y tcachcrB by Mr. Kershaw of Charleston, o His sympathetic rendition brought out I all the points of the poem, and the paticnco, the pathos, tho hopelessness a of it all mado me very uncomfortable, v My summer vacation was not aH rest, c and so i went to a very wise friend, i who can always help mo, and said, "I p wish Mr. Kershaw had left that poom t alono. 1 can't forgot it, and yet, what i is there that I can do? ' He answer- v . od "Ray your oook more money, t That's about the only point at which (j the problem touches you." And thin i the essence of the spirit of the leaeuo. t It is tho Golden Rulo as applied to c sooial economies, i In this education, wo must tcaoh a ourselves to "want" right things, right 1 ly mado. Wc must learn wbero and c how to buy so that tho "Soag of tho * Shirt" will becomo a mere memory of a ? i sad picture of by-gono days. We must d i learn, (a very hard lesson for us women c i of frugal minds) to avoid the bargain 1 , table, which is as wo all know, a mere advertising schcmo, and is tilled gono- ( rally with sweat shops gcods made ? ! specially for this olearanoo salo. ( Wbilo wc arc learning these things c ourslves, wc must teach our merchants i i the otjcot of tho league^ Teach them 1 i what a Pair liouso 19. Teach them the t use of tho label, and call persistently t for labeled goods, l'atronizi thoso t ! houses, which pay tho highest wagos fi and which think that work well done 1 1 by a woman is worth just as muoh as if a ; done by a man. Support them in the < carlyolosing movement, and urge the s observanoe of all holidays, You will I i find in thoso shops, tho best sorvije, c and tho be9t "oheapness." t And next I oomo to a cla-s of which 1 i I know not how to speak. It is by far ) tho largest class of toilors in this State , that needs our help. 1 refer to tho r children of the cotton mills. 1 know it is not a popular subjeot. VVo soarco- ( lydarcalludo to it in our oluh?there * aro so many mill presidents in Spartan- " f burg, and they havo so many relatives ' t 1 rcaiizi that there are many sides to ' L the question, and the answots cannot | bo found in a day. 1 know tho evils of labor laws. In faot, I have not very ) much faith in legislatures, composed r , of more uion, when it oomos to socialistic questions. But tho children arc ' in tho mills, working eleven hours a ' L day. These children arc growing into ^ ) men and women, just as our children " arc, and they cannot write t heir names ( s In a jury of iwtlvo men, drawn from ' i one of our city m ils last month, nine ' r of the juriours had to make their mark. \ These aro American oit:/tns, grown ' up under this woadt rful oiviiisiti >n, ( ) whieh haviog aocompltshcd such won 1 I dcrful things for it.< own, is Hoeking to f enlighten the uttermost, parts of the ( I earth. In a few years, thoy will oeaso 1 i to bo citizens, for the t into is rapidly f t approaching when the r ght of null age, 1 r whieh mean tho Divino right of our ( t opinion, will bo a question of cduca ( tion. How can Tho Consumers' League ? i touoh this olasb? Tho same answer ' 8 given. By education. Commence it the tor, *D(1 cduoato tho mill presdents. If all presidents were like r'our own James L. Orr, and Lswis I'arkor, tho taBk woro not so difioult. They have made a fino be ginning in establishing frco kinicrgartons and fino sohools, and in nany ways showing themselves tho ihildron's friend. The ooTipromiso of 'eotod by tho mill president and tho cgislaturo of North Carolina is a step n tho right direotioo. Lot tho prcsdents of Sooth Carolina unito with .horn in a Presidents' League if you fill, and lot them decide that thoy vill not cmploj a obild under fourteen, hov will not employ a ohild that oaniot read and wiito acd that further nore they will with what help thoy oan ;ct from iho State, maintain good lohools, tho question, wilt for a lime it least bo kept from tho politicians. Vbovo all things keep tho question roin our legislators?until jou educate hem. You may not bo ah'o to oduoate all ho presidents at otc?. I rather think t will require ?irae, but in the mean vbilo jou are moulding public opinod, which after all in the primary coalition of all eft.ctivo Hocial logislatiou \.ed the last lesson for us is pa'.ienco Vil Bocial reforms dcvtlop slowly, bo lauso new habits rf thought must be aiLntly tended, and wo must learn to ,wait thoso slower rosuUs which are ho ma*k of lasting go id. Your duty s, while jou are waiting an opportu lity to join the South Carolina League. 0 bo juit, be kind, bo watchful, be pa iout, and a ways koop cl jar your iwn little corner of creation. THE WEATHER AND CR0P3 Yeekly Bulletin Issued Last Week by Prof Bauer. The following is tho weekly bullotin >f tho condition of the weather an 1 rops issued last week hy Diroutcr iaucr of the South Carolina section f the climate and crop servic.i of tho jnited States weather bureau: The week ending Monday, April-9th, veraged rrom 10 to 13 degrees per ay colder than usual, with an ex remj minimum of 34 degrees at Ireenv'.lie. Thero were light frosts on ho 221, 231 and 24th in plaocs, and a raej of ice in Colloton county. Tho rosts killed ootton that was up, cuumbcrs and melons, yellowed oorn, hcokcd tho growth of truck and garens, but was apparently not injuri us on fruit. Thcro were light, scattered showers n tho 221 and 23d over tho oentral nd western counties, and snow flur ica on tho same datos in the extreme lorthwestcrn portions. Tho ground j as too wot to work, from tho pro ious wcok's heavy rains over the rcsturn half of tho State, until the oiddlc of the wo< k, and only from wo to four dajs plowing ceu'd he one. As tho soil diics it become-' aked and hard. Along the coast, aud or about fifty miles inland, thero i ced of rain to supply mois.urc to erminating seeds and growing crops, rid for iranndantirnr r.iVinnnn li .t. om lands aro not yet dry enough to dow. There was more than the usual mount of sunshine, and the wind* rcre generally light, but wero ohill og. Corn has poor and irregular standi, wing to poor germination and the avagcB of birds, and in places whole iclds have boon plowed up and re ilantod. The cool weather chcokcd ta growth and caused much to turn cllow. In the southeastern counties nly has cultivation become general. Jpland corn is not all planted. Cotton planting mado alow progress, nd much remains to plant in the pestern counties, whilo over the casern and central counties first planting s about finished. Stands are very ioor. A largo portion of thi eottcn hat was planted previous to last week's leavy rains and subsequent cold reathcr will have to bo replanted, as he young plants that were up have iicd to a largo extent, whilo newly proutcd and unsproutcd seed are roting in the ground. Tuero is a genrcl scarcity of seed for replanting. Tobacco plants continue small, and 1T0 scaroo ia Willamsburg county. Transplanting progresses slowly ex lopt in Marion countv, where it is mating completion, llioo mado slow ;rowih generally. In tho Georgetown lis'.riets, tho rivers and tidos were low mough to permit plantingopera'ions to >e resumed. With limited exceptions, wheat and >ats continuo to look promising and iro stooling well. Oats aro hoading tver tho southeastern counties, and iver limited localities elsowhero. Iwcot potatoes aro rotting in beds. nVhito potatoes appear to bo doing rnl 1 \1 nlnna Ko vn nonr amn/la (Vii. ^'Aviv uu ??? V J'UUJ IJVUI.U'J. i I UUA jc.ds warmer woather and moro uioisure, but shipments of pca9, beans and trswbeirios are going forward, tho alter ripening slowly. The aorcagc of itrawborrios is smaller than usual, rho commercial pea jh orop will not bo is largo as expected, but generally )eaocos, pears and plums have been >nly slightly injured by tho prevailng unseasonable weather. Qardons ook well, but are backward. Another Black Friday. llussell Sage of New York who somo lays ago raised his *o oj in warning igainst the wild speculation in Wall troot now predbts another "B'aok Friday" in tho near luturc. "The pubic has become strangely speculative nad," said Mr. Sago Thursday morniog, it is unprecjdonted in the stock martot. Tin re is nothing to warrant this omarkablo inflation of stocks. Another Black Friday,' is ponding. It will )o tho worst our financial world has :vcr known. Any one who knows the raltic of stocks aud studios tho prices ,< ?,i,,\.i. .w? ... II:? k nuivn iuiu/ u> vncui aru njiiiu^ iu* iay cannot fail to realize thin. Whon ho drop sets in and the public have tad their fill tho consequences will bo iwful It may moan ruin for thousands. 1 don't think this is very far away, jithcr. There is no reason for this ronarkablo advanoo in stocks. Why, lomo things selling on Chaugo today sould bo reproduood for half tho pr.ee tow received. Ah 1 naid boforo, tho ipcoulativo craze that has now Hcizod ho publio will soon end and thon will some a torriblo rookoning. Tho publio if thoao who havo rushed madly into Wall Htroot with their miney in frantic jndcavor to win millions, will pay tho lost. It is tho history of finance." ?i A CITY WIPED OUT. Fifteen Million Dollars Oivn as Sacrifice to Fire Fiend. THOU 3AND3 ARE HOMELESS. N >t 8irc r the Destruction of Columbia Has A Southern City Been 80 Terribly Aftliced by Firo. A ditpitoh from Jacksonville, Fla., t-ayh the mo6t disastrous fin in the history of that city began Fr.day shortly after noon in a small factory, frciu a defective wire, according to the host boliof, and burned for nearly ten hours. In that timo a property da at ago estimated from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 was cffuotcd. Aosording to the oity map, ono hundred and thirty blooks were bumod, many of them in the heart of tho business and rcstdence section. The estimate of houses to the blook is 10, hence 1,300 of them went up in smoke. Many ot tho finest publio and private huildiags wcro destroyed, including hotels, theatre, churches and resi dooct'8- The casualties cannot be to curately estimated tonight. That thoio were several seems to be well authenticate. Among them was that of tho firo ohicf, who sustained a bad fall. The mayor ordered all of tho saloons el jstd, and has impressed help to clear the wreckage. Tno mayor at a late hour stated that he estimated tho Iosh at $15,000,000, a.d that 10,000 to 15,000 people were homeless. Mr. W. W. Cleveland, in whose promises the fire originated, and who was ono of tho heaviest losorn, dropped dead from excitement. A stalwart negro, bringing a trunk on his head from a burning building, went crazy from tho horror of tho situation. He ran around in a circlo with tho iruuk on his head uciil ho sack exhausted and died. V ituon ran through tho street tearing their hair and oiothes, and in several icstanoos had almost denuded themselves when they wero caught by frionds and led to placis of safety. Horses hitohed to trucks could not beoutloose quickly onougtt and many of them rati wi d through the demoralized throng. At night the military was ordered out to guard the household goods piled high in Vacant lots. A Trusty Trusty. Tho Columbia S aie sa}s Alonzi Capers, a mulau-. member ol the oou t> chamgang wL.ch employed near Tomathy statiuu on ihu Charleston a- d Ac a cm Caioii <a railroad, some 50 miles lrom U autori, made a derporaic attempt iu broad day lig t to tffeot bis ca^apo from the gaug. Tt e negro com plained to thog<i?r?, Mr. ?) K. Cooler, mat he was too lil to work, and the latter aoeordii gly chained him in a room adjoining his (Cooler's) sleeping quarters and lolt mm in the daytime in charge of a negro trusty named Cleveland, who acted as oook for the camp. Cleveland had oooa-ioo tr leave the btoekado for a few momouts Tujb day at about 3 o'ol< ck p. m., aud when he returcd found Capers in Mr. Cooler s room garbed in tho guard's best suit < f clothes. As a loaded double barreled shot gun wasin the apartment the trusty did not venture to show himself, but stopped noislessly around a earner of tho building and presently saw Capers cmcrago from the doorway Bmoking a cigar and cooly walk oil; he also notiocd the guaro'e gold watch and ohain attached to the oonviets vest and a gold medal which Mr. Cooler was aooustomed to wear pinned to tho lapolof tho man's coat. Cleveland quickly noted that Capers was unarmed and evidently not noticed the gun, and hastened into tho building and secured tho weapon. Emerging a moment latter he oalled upon tho escaping oonviot halt. Capers refused to oomply with tho oook's do nar.i and tho latter let 11/a charge of duok shot with such good clfoct that it struck the convict in his left shoul der. Nothing dountcd, however, the desperate man oontinned on his way until a second load from Cleveland's gua brought him to tho ground. Caper* had broken tho lock to tho big irons which held him aad entered the guard's room whero he broke open a trunk and helped himself to various articles. It is likely Cleveland will bo liberated for his good oonduot. Capers is not seriously wounded. Slayer of Captain GrifBn. Itanard B. Kvars ha? hcp.n bail by tho supremo cou-t, the amount I being fixed at El.bOO lie was charged with killing Captain John J. Griffin on April 13. The affidavit of Evans, tho first ho has made, was interesting. Some one had sont him a keg of liquor and ho invited Captain Griffin to his room. The keg *as opened by a portor and they drank and talked. Captain Griffin invited him to dine at a restaurant. The captain took a drink, and while Evans was taking ono preparatory to going to dinner ho heard Griffin repeating poetry something like?"It is not ignoble to dio thus." Looking around he saw Griffin with his (Evans) pistol pointed at himself. Evans exolaimrd tha' tho woapon was loaded. Griffio continuing to point it Evans tried to tako it from him. Griffio cid not roltoso it and whilo thus engaged tho pistol fired. Griffio said: "I am shot. Go for a doctor " Evans says ho immediately wont to threo telephones in i ho neighborhood to call for a doctor. Griffin was his warm porsonal friend, said Evans. Jos.ph E Griffio, a son of tho dead man, swore he left his fathor after 11 o'clock and saw him put a largo roll of bills in his pocket and that after his death but ono rilvor dollar was found Ion his person. l>r. Robert W\ Gtbbcs tostificd that v >i>v j w ? uu uuvvanuu nan uiuinuu ni if it had boon struck hard bio<va with the hit or a bluot instrument. There w. re ponder marks on tho back of the right wn-it. Prom expericaoo, experiments at d tho best authorities he thought the pistol could have been no nearer than 5 foot whon fired. Kx Governor KvanH, Major W. T. Gary, N G. Kvaurt and others of the family will go on tho bond. HAMPToN DECLINES. A 8aya He Doea Not Care to b) Poetmaater at Colombia- Chi The Columbia State, of Friday, says: For Bdveral days it ha8 been rumored in Columbia that Gen. Wade Hampton had been approached by a friend of Senator MoLaurin to know vhnilmr or not Gen. Hampton would accept tbo . positon of postmaster for Columbia. n( A representative of tbo Stato oalled on Gen. Hampton Thursday afternoon at his eomfortablo home on Senate street and was rcoeived with that kind oordiality which has won so many hearts to tho grand loader of South Carolinians in war and peace Gon. Q Hampton was informed of tho report dor above mentioned and asked for romo viev expression upon it He seemed rcluc ho g tant to say anything for publication in com regard to it, but when told that t>.e into information had como from one who is thro known to bo in close touch with Sen- Ogd ator MoLiurin, the general in his usual cam firm way, said: lion 'T would not aooept anything in the this world from that souroo." nor1 Hero he pausod and after a moment Dr. continued with significant emphasis: tho "Tho people of South Carolina ought to repc know by thiB time that 1 cannot bo dem bought." nor. Ti.at is all Gen, Hampton would say 0rno in regard to th? posteffioo rumor, ox- HOm< oept to intimate that it might bo well ohar to apply to Senator MoLaurin for in- he formation on the subject. However, ho from did not seem euro that Buoh an appli- and cation would be accorded a reply that f0llo would bo entirely veraoious. '] It can bo Btatou, however, that in folic well informed oirolos it is believed that 0us Gon. Htmptoo has been approached his i more or Igsb definitely with tho offer taiui of tho Columbia postmasUrship. That are] it would bo refused if it came through thou Senator MoLaurin cannot bo doubted nre after what tho general has sa:d, nor is utte it believed that Gen. Hampton would misl accept any favors at tho hands of para President McKinley, though it is bo- mit Loved that the president desired to re whic tain Gon. Hampton in tho office of and llnitod States railroad commissioner. The Ho was unable to do so, however, for den political reasons. The Tho reference whioh Senator Hamp high ton nude to tho man who now hold r(ot, the senatorial scat ho ouoo occupied (ess, recalls a fact that has been known but ?xag rot published When the Reform hooc movement of 1890 began Senator Mo- it if Laurin, it will bo remembered, was with ra'her late getting on the band wagon had bat finally landed safely. When the beet name of Hampton's suoooasor was DOth brought out, Senator MoLaurin, then m0sl in the legislature, remarked to a Co j0cu lumnia send mm that was going loo ormn far, that he could not follow the "move bodj mcnt" in that direotion. ed ' When th nominations w-?re made, "d? how. ver, MoLaurin made a speech seo bodi 0 ding toe nuc nm n of th? man who js re was put up by too Reformers to bea HCrn the hero i f 1876 t, d While in conversation wiiu Gen. onmi Hampton the talk v ry naturally drifted 6oae to the reunion and one of the gentle Wou m*o sugg'Stid that Gen. Hampton " would doubtless be woarud by having 0f D at many old soidu rs to call on him and tei to shake his hand in publio, as all would in tl want to do. beg "Oh no," intorj.jotid the great oav- no <3 a'r)man, "I won t mind that. I am al- 0ccu ways glad to meet a man who fought cx;p( through the war without desert mg and g0Q( has not deserted since." lies, ooui Exposition Opened. dues The Buffalo Exposition was thrown open Wednesday mornirg and notwithstanding it had rained alt night and the weather conditions were bad, large ^ crowds assemblod at tho gates to enter ' as soon as they woro thrown open. Tho ? ' grounds woro well patronized by those . ? who desired to bo preBoot at the opening. William F. Hamlin was permitted mo j by agreement to purohaso tho first ticket, he having offered some time ago to .. pay |5,POO for tho privilege. Tho ticket was sent to him. At noon the paid ad . . missions aggregated about $1,000, the , ' majority of the visitors being employos or others entering on passes. At 2 . o'clock a saluto of 45 aerial bombs was ^ j fired acd simultaueuusly hundreds of flags wero raised oa tho buildings atd grounds. ,, 1 ^ ^ Murdered His Wife. ?ora ignc C. K. Armstrong, a well known gro- ttiei eery merohant at .Jacksonville, Pla., tcr shot his wife four titnes at 8 o'clock Phi Thursday night. The shooting took rage place in front of the rosidonco of the thee victim's mothor. She will die. When tcr< Armstrong firod the first shot his wife ohai fell forward on her face. He then firod oom three shots into her body. Armstrong in i drove his wife away from homo threo buri weeks ago. She went to the homo of ooiv hor mothor. He visited her Thursday ehai afternoon anl again at night when sho fath had gone to church, ilo waited for her ba-< and shot hor beforo sho got inside tho The gate. Armstrong was arrested immedi- aliv ately. was ann Pension Fund Tiod Up. sibl Tho Columbia State says "until the supremo oourt acts upon the queition as to tho right of tho omptroltor gen- eV01 oral to issue his warrants for tho pay- j mont of tho pension appropriations in- j tended to be provided for by the legislaturo no warrants can bo sont cut. In ^ t ether words tho muddle that the pension appropriation measures were irot > ten into on tho last night of tho last ^Q01 eossion of the general asnembly has wt)made it neoesstry for the supremo V(>Q court to haodlo tho matter beforo any .. ponsionoron the rolls in this Stato oan Qf t procure the ponsion money oontcmp- . lmlod" ish Tho Poor Filipino. suol Gcaetal It 11 who has just arrived in the) Washington di on from tho Philippines, eno whoro ho was in command of four de- kiol partments of southorn Luzon, is quoted thet in a spcoial from tho capital as saying: tori One sixth of tho natives of Luzon have lish eithor been killed or have died of the Ant dengue fever in the laHt two years. Tho som loss of lifo by killing alono has boon very whe great, but 1 think that not ono man has tho boon slain cxe3pt where hiB death sor- oial ved the legitimate purposes of war. It toot has been nooessary to aoecpt what in ty i other oountrios would probably be " thought harsh measures for tho Filipi loss no is tricky and oratty and has to be qui: fought in his own way. rioa | , ' MM) GOVERNOR. tndlsr, of Qnorgia. Pays Hi* Warm Respects to ME NORTHERN EDITORS J Denounces Reports that Have Been Made Regarding Recmt Expressions At tribut?d to Him. ov. Chandlor, of Georgia, is hot unthe >oollsi. Recently in an interr with tho Atlanta Journal Reporter ;avo out fot publication a full and ploto roply to tho accounts of his iv!cw that havo been printed mghout tho country regarding tho en Farkhurst party that recently 3 south on i special tour of irspro of the educational advantages of nootion. In the interview Gover Chandler was reported aBB&ying that Farkhurst who was a member of party, was a crack and from that irt there grew a perfect torrent of inciation *11 oreditod to tho goverTho statement furnished by G^v r Chandler Wednesday sets at rest 9 of tho expressions that had been Red tohim and goes to show that has been the reoipiont of letters i persons who havo denounced him tho entire south. The Btatemont ts: Lifo iH too short for a public man to >w up and correct all tho slanderstatements made about himself, lotions aud his utterances. Moun) aro mado out of mole hills, words put in his mouth that he never ight of uttering, and falso colorings put on what he does say and his ranoes aro panded under lurid and caling headlines by sensational graphcrs 1 havo learned to subto all this, but there is a point at ih forbearance ceases to bo a virtus, I havo about reaohed that point report of what 1 said about tho OgFarkhurot party as printed in Savannah Frees, though somewhat ly oolored, was substantially cor and was good humored and harmbut as it went furthor north it was gcrated and embellished by false I till I would not have reoognizad my namo had not been oonncoted i it. In the conversation which 1 with The Press man, which has i dignified as an "interview," I said ling that oould give offense to the t sensitive, unless perhaps my lar reference to Dr. Farkhurst as a !r A*. -/V T 1?? ? vwu U uv DU. X UIllIUIOCU LIU r, I "roasted" nobody;I "dennuoo nobody, I said not a word about -d yank>-o money," I impugned no 's moiives. I see Dr. Park hurst ported to have said <n his Sunday's ion "nal the governor of Georgia, id the governor of North ?Jaroiioa 0 into direot oontaot with the per 1 of tho oouferenoa" the oritiei m d not have been made. This seems to bo the head and front ay offending, that I aid not dance ddaiico od this party at its met-tit g le colored church in this city. I to assure the reverend dootor that lisoourtesy was intended. Had 11 irred to mo that this was a courtesy ioted of me I would certainly have !, at whatever sacrifice of other du heoause 1 do not desire to be dis-teous. Tho dootor says "tho Stu .h i not altogether love us, but n > one o hates us." The latter part of this anient is unquestionably truo. ro is hc.e and thero in tho south a k, for we havo some oranks hero who thinks he hates tho northern ?lo, but this spooios is rare, much r, I fear, than tho men of the north hate the people of tho south. The amiable doctor may differ with ,n this but he would not if he oould the hundreds of denunciatory and ly abusive letters in my possession, 0 of them from his own oity, in ch tho vilest epithets aro applied to south and southern men and even hern women, such as "you oannot e men in the south, you raiso :es," "your state is a disgrace to nation," "snuff dipping sluts," -d daughters of sin," etc. These vile denunciations and slan1 havo not emanated tloce from irant fanatics, but some of the norn newspapers havo been iust as bitand slanderous. For instance the ladclphia Press a few days ago, en id by my innocent failure to meet 10 tourists when they went through 3 inspecting tho negro sjhcol", rged that I have 'given my taou iont to lynching and sat supinoly my effiao while a human being was ned alive by a mob,' and that I re '<1 from the lynohers a pieco of the rrcd flesh ?s a souvenir.' Tho ier of lies could not have invented a >r or moro malicious flasohood. re has boon only one negro burned o in Georgia,andnotwithstanding his the most diabolical oriruo in the als of irime. 1 did everything posts to prevont tho lynohing. The ncnt I heard of tho arrest of the ro I ordered tho sheriff by wire to imon a sufficient force if it required ry man in his county, to prevent once. Ho replied that ho found it ossiblo to resist the mob and that negro had already been lynched, hing short of omnipotence oculd, in brief interval between the moment m 1 was informod that Hose had a apprchondod and tho moment at oh the torch was appliod, havo proted tho lynohing 'ill _ L . . t . f * i no cnargo tnai i roceivoa a piooe ho oharred flesh as a souvenir is so 3ly, meanly and utterly falso that it umiliating to havo to rofer to it. Noy but a bruto would offer or receive ^ a growsomo 'souvenir,' and had 'o been a man in Georgia bruitish ugh to offi r it to mo 1 would havo tod him out of my offico. And yet to base charges aro mado in tho cdial columns of a daily newspaper pubod in 'Tho City of Brotherly Love.' 1 theso aro only speoimons of the love io of tho northern pooplo and papers > complain of 'discourtesy' ha v..- for southern people and southern tffi who are doing their utmost to pro all of their peoplo in life and liber rithout regard to r*ce or color. 'The New York Times has beon little abusive. Without stopping to in ro for faots or truth they either fable or assumo as true slanders fabriA aated by others and denounce the sot orn people acd southern officials 'savages' and 'biutes'. They seek lash us into loving them. They red us as orinrnals when we dissent fi their viows. Most of the raca friol that has over existed in tho sout) chargeable to them aad thoir intern dling. The southern white peop'e iKn at ullinvn * 1 - MV uvuvuviu UC^IVCO UUUCIDlBUa U other and do not hate each other w lot alono. "These miserable assassins of ol actor and of tko poaco of communi aro chargeable with all the racefriet that exists. We had nono of it bol they intermeddled They have abu the liberty of tho prets and have o strucd it into license, to slander i abuse those who, knowing thesituat io thesou.h better than they do, d to dissent from their dogmas born igoorancr and prejudice or to res their io-ults an l slanders. "Th?y brsud as knaves or fouls brutes all who diff.r from them i while theiifelveB spurning tho net they damn us because we haveestabl ed separate schools for tbe two ra and havo prohibited their intcrmarria If they would emulate tho example B.okcr Washington and Counoil i southern negroes of that type v pre ash and teach the dootrine of tr and honrsty and peace and good w instead of the gospel of hato, thoy wo bo respected by tho southern people innoh as Washington and Counoil i But they cannot do thisbooanso tl are tho lineal do6oondantB of those w fleeing from the old world to enjoy ligious freedom in the new, callee sort of town meeting in the little b in which they sailed, tho day bef they landed, and passod a resolut that they wculd bo governed by tho li of God until they could find time to act better ones and when they bad la cd proceeded at onoo to enjoy religi freedom by burning witches andsoou iog Quakers and Baptists and Papi at a earl's tail, and from that day this they havo busied themselves in tending toother people's business. T is tho peculiar oharastcrist'c by wh this breed which aoeords to overy < ihd riahf 1a tK*r*lr ? ? . . D ? ?v %ti?un lUi UlUiOCU (IU c*ci ho tbioks ma thoy do?may alw be known. They (but nobody else no cr south) will denounce me au Bo bon and a blaokruard for whioh I hi said about them, for the truth hui Thoy will cis .ort it and torture it ii an attack on Dr Parkhurst and his pa and upon all the pooplo of the nor This is tho way this breed always da But tho ohargo will be basely false. "I have not and d > not intend a w that I havo said for tho amiable doc whoso intentions 1 believe are good,) for his party, only two of whom. Wt ington and Curry, are known to me f soually These two are good men i re, as I have on every occasion si doing good It is intonded solely sueh oreatuics as the mendaoious who penned the vile slander iu the P alelphia P.ess rsferr. d to aba wreiohrs who K?viug co manners morals of i heir own ounstitu ehomsel IDC censors uf iho m tuners and uio a i thers Dr Fartcuum aid his fri l can come to the south aLd especially Georgia whenever they please, and in the future as in the past, be tret with the u most courtesy, and while people of this state aro not mendicai besgm< alm^ of anyoody, they m?j long a-> they treat us as their equal* eially, morally and inul.ic'ui.ly, tend to our schools, white and cole such aid as they p ease and it will received in the spirit iu which it is tered But we have never jet learn and Qoi lortjid that we should t learn to be s,oophants and boot lit licking tho hand that srnius ui, oi 'orook the pregnant hinges of the k that thrift may follow fawniDg.'" Allen D. Candle Opposed Marriage Settlemei Just before Calhoun's marriage had a long talk wi'.h the legal eou of his sweetheart's mother rcgart Florida's marriage settlement, and rtctly thereafter, says George Wo Sjmotdsin tho Ladies Homo Jour vrotctohi* i rospootivo mother-in cn the subject: "From prejudice reason, I have always been oppose* marriage settlements. 1 think exr tree and reason provo them to bo friendly to the happinesi of tho i riagc slate, and that thoy tond to { duoe pecuniary embarrassment In I state there should be ono interest, happincs and cno destiny. That en confidence, w hich is reposed by a fen in tho object of bcr choice, in plac both her honrr and her property in custody, gives rise to tho most sac and tender regard. A marriage tlemont implies n distrust. It is safety against inevi able aocident. is a guard against tho imprudenoo misconduct of the husband only, successful in life there is no benefit one; if unsuccessful, what more agreeagblo than to have properly, not to be able to pay just debts? would to mo bo wretched. It wouh splendid poverty." The Difference. Referring to tho estimation in wl the people of tho south and those of north hold the negro, Dr. l'arkhu of New York, recently said in a moo: "The southerner dots not ! iho negro any hotter than tho aver northerner docs, and the carry themselves toward tho nog with just about the same amount Chribtian consideration?only tho two, tho southern white man perhaps this advantage, that he d not makoquito so flamboyant a| tense of loving tho negro as his i them confrrrc docs The south white man dislikes tho negro, and o up to it. Tho white man in the nc dislikos tho negro and lies about it. A Sanitarium to bo Built. The Spartanburg Journal says i reported on good authority thai a li sanitarium is to bo built at Flat Hi N 0., near Hendersonville. This p is alr.ady noud as a hoalth resort a fine institution of this sort would greatly to its tatuo and value. Dr. thur GuorarJ of Ni>w York, is to b this sanitarium. Ho has a fine ec at Flat Hock and tho sanitarium wi near his present summer home. Gucrard is a nativo of Charleston has had a distinguished ciroer asox ist and surgeon. "J. BREAK FOR LIBERTY 1 rom Lifa Tsrm Convicts Ovsrpowsr a ] lion j i ia Qutra and Esc8pss. J led- M and H aoh A MAN HUNT FOLLOWS. hen lar- Man in a Tree Shoots at Pursuers, M ties ion But Is Brought Down With M 'OTQ _ sod Pictol Shot. Only I IOD- 1 ..j Oni FtrsiBMt. * *uu "" "r "w" *on A dispatch from Hagood to The a State says one if the most daring "*?i ^ osoapes that was ever mado from the ! n State farm was made by three convicts Wednesday morning The plow detail ?J was at work near thick branch when %u Israel Sims, a life prisoner from York f county, slipped up behiid Guard M. O. " J 3 ' Burkett, struck him a stunning blow I 008 on tho neck and took his gun from him. 1 ,gof After getting the gun Sims attempted ?, to shoot l>urke:t, but did not know k? how to manipulate the rifle. He im' ? mediately took refuge in the branoh, ... carrying the riflo with him and was fol: lowed by two other desperate oonviots, u Grant McNeill, sentenced for life from ' Charleston, and Tom Haystaok, ! ?* sentenced for 20 years, from Saluda. cy j.jio otjj0r priHOQ0r9 made no effort to J ?' esoape, though it is said that others ^ ,ro wero iu the plot. As soon as it was * possible Mr. Gardner, the manager of !? tne DeSaussura farm, was notified of ?ro the esoape and as is the oustom, every lon effort was mado to effoot their capture. IWS It was not long before the guards and and trusties had the escapcB surrounded n in the swimp. With the edges well 0U3 guardod on all sides, several entered irg and searched tho almost impenetrable 8'"8 swamp. It was not long betore Isaao 0 Sims, the ring leader, was discovered ,?.* up a tree, lie s ill had the rifla with . \B him and on being commanded to sur10 1 render, opened fire on Mr. Morris, the I ino manager of the Keid farm, and another I >vl* man who was with him. As there was only one load in tho rifle. Morris knew n that no harm could then bo done, sc he ar covered Sims with his pistol, and of1Te footed his capture without any further / r 8" trouble. Sims was then seourely tied. I Q ? turnod over to one of the guards and r.y was soon landed in the stockade. The pursuit of MoNeill and Haystaok was c9' then oontinued. Another drive was , made through the swamp when McNeill was discovered. He broke and ran and tor attempted to make his escape aoross an J D?r open field, but Mr. Gardner, who was . mounted on hi? hnn? a nr. n (\ro?tivil >er, him. On being oommanded to halt, krV MoNcili showed fight, turned on Hard- ^ '1' ner and bad to bo shot before he would J r aurrender. The wound, however, is in ou,1 cue arm and toe ojusk- " t a uangerous one k*e was ^ stoeaade aad tho' p'irauilHPfintinn"r ued for Haysiaok. y\ulnne8??mp m * wall guarded on all aides, searoh alter | s y searoh was made, but the fugitive I 11 ^ could not be found. A large guard f toroe was kept oa autyail night but at ^ J this writing Haystack has eluded bis _ lt: pursuers and it is supposed has made ^ good his escape. It is simply marve- J Ions how he effected it u^dcr the oir' 60 oumstaooes. The plot to esoape was 'H0 well laid for the prisoners oapmred vx. were supplied with rations snffio.eat to rL, ' last two or three days and also had a ,0 small quantity ot turpentiao whioh ?, they use, it is said, on their foot to i ' keep tho dogs from trailing thorn. 1 . vcr when aima took Mr. Barkett's gun, ?' Burkett attempted to shoot him with r his pistol and after snapping evert oart- , noe ridge it refused to firo. 1 r. Drowned by Their Father. I . A partial confirmation of the suspi' ' oion that William Kosonfeld drowned he his four ohildren and himslf one week ntel *8? ln l^e Mississippi river, was obtain- j cd Thursday whec the body of tho nine * year old Hosenfeld boy was taken from <b- tho river near Fort Snelling. Rosenlsoy fold is alleged to have abduoted his na] ohildren, who were in tho onstody of i thnir mnllmr ) Minnmnnlio o??n??/l -??... -- Mtuuwaj/u io, OUUU1CU rig and drove with them to the river or where all are supposed to have been i to drowned. The father is supposed to >cri- have committed suicide also by throw- ~?4 UD_ ing himself over the bridgo. Their disappearance was an unsolved mystery '"ar until a watchman found the body of a boy floating in the Mississippi. Kosen1 a feld had for some time been separated ?.nc from his wife, who has been living in \rc Minneapolis, while Hesenfeld lived in 0 St. Paul. A week ago ho hired a oaru,n.g riage and got the children from the relat 'M? tiveswho were keeping them. He tried :ro to prevail on his wife to accompany 90 them but she refused. The next mornD.? ing the horse was found near the Mar1 shall avenue bridgo, all traoo of the ooVf oupants of the carriago having disappear . ed until Thursday. t in , Six Hundred Arrested. Xt A dispatch from Berlin says a rci bo port has bean rccsived there of tho disooverv of a gigantic conspiracy in Russian Poland which has been followed by 4 a largo number of arrests. Six hun- o dred persons who were suspectod of bench ing anarohists wore imprisoned in tho the oitadel at Warsaw. These inoluded e rat, *11 the passengers on a train, numboreer ing '-00. The districts of Sosnovioo, like Sieldice and Dombrova have been oc go cupied by Cossacks. Tho nature of the two conspiracy is not known, ron ~ of Women of the South. of Sarah Bernhardt sailed frem New has York for Europe on Wednesday. The oos crush at the pi >r prior to hor doparturo pre- was ttriffia. Bernhardt was oaught in aor- the orowd and pusLcd heavily against 'ern the railing of tho gangplank. She wns screamed and three pouoemen rcsonod rth her unhurt. In discussing Amerioan women, Bernhardt praise! highly ic Southern women, saying that they wero a delight to tho oye, possessing good taste, good looks, good manners and 1 amiable spirits. ~ irge lace Sligh Quits. and Tho announcement made Wednesday ?s add night that the attorney general had ao- >|. Ar- oepted the resignation of K. Brooks ). uild Sligh and appointed ex Sheriff George 0. itate S. MoCrary, of Laurens, United States 11 tie deputy marshal for South Carolina will Dr. oanso surprise in this state. People rd "ill be puztled to figure out jurt wh??re lem-1 the administration is leading to. Up I o this MoOrary has been a Democrat.